20 music must haves.

[mwrenchd]

You've gotten some very good no-brainer choices already.

I'll keep it simple. These are my favorite albums from each of the top 20 artists in my last.fm profile. Heavily slanted towards newer music. I would only consider #s 1, 2, 9, and 11 to be "classics", if that's what you mean.

1. John Zorn - The Big Gundown

2. Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes

3. Detachment Kit - Of This Blood

4. An Albatross - Eat Lightning, Shit Thunder

5. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs or Feels

6. Boris & Sunn 0))) - Altar

7. The Mae Shi - Terrorbird

8. Hella - The Devil Isn't Red

9. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow

10. Need New Body - UFO

11. Sonic Youth - damn, I dunno. They're all fuckin epic.

12. volcano! - Beautiful Seizure

13. Deerhoof - Apple O'

14. Ex-Models - Zoo Psychology

15. Melt-Banana - Cellscape is the easiest 1st listen, Teeny Shiny is my fave

16. Oneida - The Wedding

17.My Morning Jacket - At Dawn

18. Les Savy Fav - The Cat & the Cobra

19. Comets on Fire - Avatar

20. Akron/Family - Meek Warrior

[Ahlvahroe]

im mostly a hiphop head so i just put some that people may have passed up

rakim- follow the leader

ghostface- supreme clientele/pretty toney

scarface- the diary

big pun - capitol punishment

outkast - aquemini

jurassic 5 - power in numbers

j-live - all of the above/the best part

thats enough for now. i would like to try to get into more jazz pieces but i dont know where to start, i do have some instrumental jazz things like arturo sandoval and what not.

[red]

im mostly a hiphop head so i just put some that people may have passed up

rakim- follow the leader

ghostface- supreme clientele/pretty toney

scarface- the diary

big pun - capitol punishment

outkast - aquemini

jurassic 5 - power in numbers

j-live - all of the above/the best part

thats enough for now. i would like to try to get into more jazz pieces but i dont know where to start, i do have some instrumental jazz things like arturo sandoval and what not.

here are some good places to start:

coltrane & miles (obviously)

charles mingus

dizzy gillespie

bill evans

stan getz

jim hall

charlie parker

roach

etc.

just listen to their albums and see who they worked with and just stem out from there.

[wEstSidE]

ILLMATIC

Kool G Rap and Nas - Fastlife

Chicane - Behind the Sun (his best work. the name itself makes me happy)

Chicane - Far From the Maddening Crowds (also makes me happy at mere mention)

Solar Stone - they don't have an album, get whatever singles you can, especially "Solar Coaster" and "Seven Cities" (such a classic).

Tupac. I don't think he is guilty of having produced a bad or boring record. He kills it everytime.

Yeah I wish it were '96/'97 and '01.

oh yeah other albums that i know far too well...

CYHSY! - CYHSY! (this is worth buying just for "In this Home on Ice")

The Postal Service -there can be only one! (TPS is good sometimes, I can live without it).

Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here (great album, i don't need it yet but it's on its way)

Grandaddy - Fambly Cat, Sumday, Sophtware Slump (all their shit is so good)

[superBobo]

Johnny Cash - american recordings 1-5

Cash - live at san quentin

and so forth.

[superBobo]

and

Townes Van Zandt - Our mother the mountain

Nick Drake - Five leaves left

[denimdestroyedmylife]

van dyke parks- song cycle

[Double D]

Mansun - Six

Faultline - Closer Colder

My Vitriol - Finelines

Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence

Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine

Radiohead - OK Computer

Pink Floyd - Animals

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Pulp - Different Class

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Deftones - Around The Fur

REM - Out Of Time

Martin Grech - Unholy

Leftfield - Leftism

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin

Sikth - The Trees Are Dead And Dying, Wait For Something Wild

Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

Pink Floyd - Pulse

The Clash - London Calling

At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

Underworld - Everything Everything

Pixes - Doolittle

At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command

Not 20 but 25, and I probably missed about 75 out.

[swooc]

opeth - damnation

alice in chains - unplugged

[Guest itsmeJT]

don't make me laugh

[swooc]

coming from the guy who put in 'the rakes' as a must have. i should be the one laughing.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

every single carpenters album ever

[alterion]

some:

Radiohead - OK computer

Pedro The Lion - Achillies Heel

Oasis - definatley maybe

Acoustic Landyland - Skinny Grin

godspeed you! black emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists like Anntennas to Heaven

Belle and Sebastian - The Life Persuit

Idlewild - 100 broken windows

Get Cape Wear Cape Fly - Chronicles of a bohemian teenager

+ more who i havn't listed, starting to D?L a lot more jazz of of e-music atm, its safe to say miles davis + the rest deserve to be on there but i've never felt confident going into a record store and being able to pick a good recording

[Carl]

Im gonna try and do 20 not mentioned yet...

The Replacements - Let It Be

Mekons - Fear and Whisky

Lucing Williams - Lucinda Williams

Yo La Tengo - Painful

Smog - A River Aint Too Much To Love

The Wedding Present - Bizarro

Toms - The Toms

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts Of The Great Highway

Rocketship - A Certain Smile

Perince Brothers - The World Wont End

The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

Kleenex Girl Wonder - Ponyoak

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville

The Pastels - Sittin Pretty

Madonna - The Immaculate Collection

Holiday - Ready, Steady, Go!

The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall

Jens Lekman - Oh Your So Silent Jens

David Vandervelde - The Moonstation Houseband

[twistedtrees]

I these are just some albums that I think are good from start to finish, and are thus worth downloading

El-P=Fantastic Damage

Outkast=Stankonia

Pavement=S+E

Roots=Things Fall Apart

Polvo=Celebrate The New Dark Age

Jeru Tha Damaja=Heroz 4 Hire

Flaming Lips=Hit To Death In The Future Head

DangerMouse=Grey Album

Genius=Liquid Swords

ODB=Return To The 36 Chambers: Dirty Version

Like the quote above says, these are albums I can listen ALL the way through, without needing to skip any tracks. All the songs are good. There's more, but I just can't think of 'em now.

[Guest itsmeJT]

coming from the guy who put in 'the rakes' as a must have. i should be the one laughing.

lol nAAAAAAh somehow I still think my choice is better than some shitty scandinavian pathetic bully victim music

anybody who looks like this is hillarious

and for the record even though you won't listen to my opinion I'd just like to say that a lot of your choices have been abysmal.

T H X ^__^!

[Liberation1945]

^ at least 4 out of 5 of em look like they could be on superfuture(minus the hair).

[superdupersang]

coldplay- parachutes

[Guest itsmeJT]

^ at least 4 out of 5 of em look like they could be on superfuture(minus the hair).

haha alright boss

[Bandwagonesque]

Biased towards the old skool...

Otis Redding - Sings Soul

The Sonics - Here are the Sonics

Buffalo Springfield - Buffalo Springfield Again

The Who - My Generation or Quad

Love - Forever Changes

Marvin Gayne - What's Going On

The Kinks - Village Green

VU - Loaded

Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Neil Young - everything

Big Star - Radio City

Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head

Saints - Eternally Yours

Clash - The Clash

The Jam - Setting Sons

REM - Murmur

Ride - Going Blank Again

Lush - Split

Fannies - Grand Prix

Matt Sweet - Altered Beast

BJM - Take It From The Man!

TSOOL - Welcome To The Infant Freebase

Supergrass - In It For The Money

You Am I - Hourly, Daily

Ted Leo/Rx - Hearts of Oak

[Carl]

Good fucking list Teenage Fanclub

[Bandwagonesque]

Good fucking list Teenage Fanclub

Thanks, and good call on the New Pornos, though that's my least favourite album from them (but still awesome)

[JBee]

tim buckley - happy sad

alva noto & sakamoto - vrioon

echo & the bunnymen - porcupine (not crocodiles!)

mark hollis - mark hollis

cinematic orchestra - man with the movie camera

various - skampler

led zeppelin - III

telefon tel aviv - map of what is effortless

angels of light - everything is good here/please come home

pan american - quiet city

spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

aoki takamasa - simply funk

savath & savalas - apropa't

league unlimited orchestra - love and dancing

otis redding - otis blue

the faces - ooh la la

alice coltrane - journey in satchidananda

on and on and on it goes......

[jooles]

This is impossible, but here are 20 that come to mind:

Beatles - Abbey Road

Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

Radiohead - OK Computer

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Pixies - Doolittle

The Strokes - So This is It

The Cure - Japanese Whispers

Neil Young - Harvest

Pulp - This is Hardcore

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

Prince - Sign 'O the Times

Andre 3000 - The Love Below

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

Lou Reed - Transformer

The Clash - London Calling

The Stooges - Raw Power

Patti Smith - Horses

[chromesquared]

Hip hop head stuck in the past so....

Deltron 3030

Saafir - Boxcar sessions

Chino XL - Here to save you all

Ras Kass - Soul on Ice

Kool Keith - Doctor Octagon, Black Elvis, etc.

Del - Both sides of the brain

Wu - 36 Chambers

Andre Nickatina - Raven in my eyes

Method Man - Tical

MC Juice - 100% J.U.I.C.E

[airfrogusmc]

Heres my top 20 desert island records. I see there are a few others that have already listed some of mine Zep III,Stooges Raw Power, The Clash-London Calling, Mile Davis Kind Of Blue, but not one has The Who-Live at Leeds? The greatest live rock record ever recorded. Townshend playing the echo off the back of the hall. Oh well heres my list. In no particular order

The Who- Live at Leeds

Hendrix-Electric Ladyland

Mile Davis-Kind of Blue

Alice in Chains-Dirt

Howlin' Wolf-The Real Folks Blues

The Clash-London Calling

Patsy Cline-12 Greatest Hits

Iggy & The Stooges Raw Power

Funkadelic-Magot Brain

Cream-Live Cream-When Clapton was God

Janes Addiction-Ritual de lo Habitual

John Coltrane-A Love Supreme

The Mars Volta-Francis The Mute

Led Zeppelin III

Willie Dixon-I Am The Blues

Marvin Gaye-Whats Going On

The Beatles-Rubber Soul

The Allman Brothers-Live At The Filmore East

System of a Down-Toxicity

Billy Cobham-Spectrum (Tommy Bolin on guitar just amazing)

[SanLC]

Ill just add to some of the stuff here, for hip-hop Cunninlynguist - Southern Underground

and for rock/blues John Mayer - Continuum and John Mayer Trio - Try!

[mellowbonsai]

since i know you won't download every single album everyone mentions, i'll second some of the ones mentioned earlier (this list is EXTREMELY indie/90s-2000s-centric):

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Radiohead - OK Computer

Wu Tang - Enter the 36 Chambers

Cursive - The Ugly Organ

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Nas - Illmatic

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

The Knife - Silent Shout

And adding my own:

The American Analog Set - Know By Heart

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

The Arcade Fire - Funeral

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

I'm Wide Awake It's Morning - Bright Eyes

Recording A Tape the Color of Light - Bell Orchestre

Akron/Family - Akron/Family (ST > Meek Warrior, IMO)

Wilco - A Ghost Is Born

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album

Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

[shut up alex]

small amount of music on my small i pod, at the moment:

Against me! - eternal cowboy

dinosaur jr. - where you been

guns n roses - apetite for destruction

iggy pop and stooges - best of discs

JAWBREAKER - DEAR YOU - BEST FUCKING ALBUM!

jets to brazil - perfecting lonliness

jesus and mary chain - psychocandy and automatic

libertines - up the bracket

nirvana - unplugged

PIXIES - doolittle (but tromp le mond will always be my fav)

replacemnts - let it be

velvet underground - thr velvet underground and nico

white stripes - elephant

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